Archive for June, 2006

Cocktails With Kelly

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Everyone watch the blonde fondle a horse.
The table is set for six hundred.
The ancient symbol staked on parchment paper;
light from tiny candles; cattle farms
Cascading across the most beautiful tracts
Of small-town repetitive West.
Just try to peek inside the tent.
It’s like a lost world in there
with the blinding flashes of a photo booth
Spitting passport pictures of women
Stamped […]

Catch The Wind

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

—But where did it go? The lake had dried almost overnight and within weeks everything was dead, the few resilient beasts concealed in the clay of the empty river bed, gummy membranes retaining water. The last tribesman wanders the dusty expanse, squinting before the harshness of the sun, searching for rain clouds across […]

The ‘Song Birds’ Suck… Again

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

This reviewer recently had the unique misfortune of catching the early matinee performance of the ‘Song Birds’ at Third Street Elementary, expecting an uninspired but nevertheless professional performance. Make no mistake—though it sounds cute enough, this show was simply awful– there’s no musical precedent for how pretentiously nauseating these blaspheming 8 and 9 year […]